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Gidday

Due to a marvellous little feature of Viz there is apparently nothing we can do about the collapse  of Viz when we try to render in Light Studio. This feature is something that AutoDesk tried to implement to help people, but according to one expert I consulted it is a feature that many users of Viz worldwide are complaining about! So if you are members of the architectsrule.org collaborative because you have downloaded Viz/Revit etc - please complain! Now! LOUDLY! Everyone! I could have done with more time to prep my travel and your classes than trying to solve their problems.

So:

WHAT TO DO?

fortunately the answer is simple: use 3DS MAX 

The interface inside the program is much the same.

The material editor, the renderers, the sun system for Light STudio etc are all the same.

As we have 30 licenses of Max and 90 of Viz, please only use this program if you have had Revit render problems with Light Studio in Viz...

Good Luck! Hope no more issues come out of the woodwork to bite us in the soft unprotected regions ...

M 

Hi

I will be on a 'plane at 4:30pm on Tuesday heading at first to a  seminar on

Generative Components  run by Bentley about which you can find out more here I will not be at Tuesday's lecture. You will however be in very good hands - with some crucial information that should assist the hand in...

For this reason, I plan to come to make a presentation at the Tuesday 11:30 and the 1:30pm  tutorials on Light Studio materials as the lecture room LT1 demo has been a little unsatisfactory for me thus far.

M 

REF: dolphins  

Gidday

Tuesday 30 May 3:30pm. For those who don't remember, the lectures are in LT1.

David Harrison has kindly agreed to talk through the process that he has described in his blog post on the summary web pages you are creating  for this Thursday's web site hand in.

Rachel Ryan will talk through how to post your files to a Google Earth locale.

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 Remember, the publish options in Dreamweaver that David has blogged will work from outside the schools of architecture and design. They do not work from inside the school. SO: IF YOU ARE PUBLISHING USING DREAMWEAVER FROM INSIDE THE SOAD:

when you set up your site  (or when you edit an existing site) as per the instructions in David's blog, mine and David's lectures and in the 'my first web page' tutorial on the bbsc303 web site, there is a small change that needs to be made:

When you select the remote info location to publish TO; you  should set

• the access as Local/Network
• the Remote Folder as your R:\drive file hand in location (REMEMBER your index.html file should be at the start level of this folder - the level defined by your name, not some sub-folder)

Please do not forget what we have talked about in class, and what is on the assignment web site:

ASSIGNMENT 2: 

you hand in around 1 June 2006 (check web site timetable for  the date relevant to your class group)

you hand in a web page / pages on 2 June that summarises the model making / collaboration process and has a pointer to a web page / pages where the renders will appear the following week

ASSIGNMENT 1:

you hand in around 8 June 2006 (check web site timetable for  the date relevant to your class group)

you hand in the web page / pages with the renders in thumbnail form,  linking in each case to the larger format picture.

Gidday all

I have a thought that will help us all:

It is that we can all help each other develop a guide book / helpful suggestions good practice guide to rendering by tagging our problems and solutions appropriately. My idea is that we will rapidly reach a stage where when you have a problem / issue with rendering you will search through the tags for that program to find how other people have dealt with the issue.

So: could we please  use the following tags on the relevant blog entries:

Light Studio

Mental Ray 

Dreamweaver

Materials

People

Furniture

Skies

Plus, could you please add a tag of

Light Flow Meter 

to all uploaded pictures / questions about the array of white balls to be placed in a sectional view of your building about which Merete gave a lecture a couple of weeks back. 

Please note:

Changes to the course information web site (after its final publication on 7 March 2006) are announced on that web site. For those who don't bother going back to that, here is a reminder of two crucuailly important pieces of info:

On the timetable page the deadline for hand in of assignment 1 has been moved ONLY FOR BArch Year 5, students, to 10 June 2006 from current 8 June date, so long as there are no other clashes with core courses. [Changed 25 May 2006]

On the timetable page the deadline for hand in of assignment 2 has been moved ONLY FOR BArch Year 3, ARCH 311 students, to 3 June 2006 from current 1 June date, so long as there are no other clashes with core courses. [Changed 1 April 2006] 

Hi

I was looking for the web site for the producers of Light Studio and discovered these cool images!

Check out the web site by clicking these images.

Hi

Follow up to my comment on David's post about publishing your files on the web..

Here are some screen captures of setting up a site - the first and most important thing to do...

M

Once this is done you should be able to instantly publish your site, and then check it online at Reasonate.

NB: to see stuff on the webarea in reasonat you need to follow the instructions to activate that function... 

NBB: sometimes when checking web sites online you will open a file only to be shown an old copy. This is a result of a trick that Internat Explorer and Firefox and other browsers use to speed themselves up. If you 'ask' them to load  a page they have laoded recently they will probably load a copy of the file from a local 'cache'. If you make a change in dreamweaver, publish and then browse and nothing looks different, it may be for this reason. To override this one normally presses <CTRL><F5> or <CTRL><R> to force a refresh off the original server...

Check out people starting to reference stuff through GM: 

LINK: 

http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/map-views-available-for-australia-and-new-zealand

Another place to keep an eye on - and to try posting to:

(as usual Mr/Ms Phelps - copy the following URL into your browser and press return - if your efforts cause problems for you or any of your colleagues, then the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions)

LINK to Architecture Wiki:  

LINK to Mapki :

Interesting stuff!